Network Facilitation Collective The Network Facilitation Collective continues to meet monthly to think about and figure out how best to support nonviolence stuff happening all around Australia. We spent a large part of the March meeting preparing the agenda for the Gathering based on feedback we received from many people on the facilitated questionnaire. The budget is still on target due to our fundraising efforts. Pledges, grants and donations are meeting expenditure at present. A thorough funding submission has been prepared for trusts and foundations and several have already been submitted. We will continue to submit a series of these to funding organisations and, following that, to companies that may provide something. An International Visitors Travel Fund has been established due to a $2000 donation from a valued member of the Network in Western Australia. This will enable us as a Network to choose who we support from overseas. I will be travelling to Darwin, Alice Springs and Adelaide in late August, early September in order to make contacts with groups and individuals who may want to use the support and tools of the Australian Nonviolence Network. I hope to meet people both formally and informally, and hold consultations and workshops about nonviolence and the network. I am also travelling/working in Cape York from May to August so Jo Barter will be taking my job on the Collective and as Resource Coordinator for the Centre for Nonviolence for five months while I'm away. Jo has been involved in nonviolence for the past five years starting out in the Melbourne Rainforest Action Group and going on to form the Spinsters, a women's action group. Jo lives in Daylesford. At the Centre for Nonviolence at Commonground we have been continuing refining and ordering the physical space. We have a library/filing collective that's pooling lots of brain power and experience to create comprehensive and accessible resources. And in preparation for the Australian nonviolence boom, we are in the process of involving several people (Gabrielle, Anita, Jennifer, Alison, Anitra, Christine) who are learning how to use the Centre. And now there's the pamphlet. We're proud to include, inside this edition of NvT, the CNC pamphlet. It's been designed by Dwayne Campbell and we think it looks great. We've printed 2000 and would like to see them distributed around Australia to grassroots social change organisations who might be able to use the support of the Centre. Something you can do for the Network is to send us lists of names, phone numbers and/or addresses for us to send pamphlets to. And if you give us a ring we can send you a stack to distribute in your networks. Remember that the aim of the Centre for Nonviolence is to support the development of the Network around Australia. So keep us in mind for when you've a problem or a need in your nonviolent life or work. Margaret Pestorius